George Inness | Quotes / Aforismi

George Inness🎨 (1825-1894) was an American artist🎨 whose landscapes melded the paint handling of the French Barbizon School🎨 with subject matter specific to the changing American countryside.

• The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

• Il vero uso dell'arte è, in primo luogo, coltivare la natura spirituale dell'artista.

• The true end of art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living emotion.

• La vera fine dell'Arte non è imitare una condizione materiale fissa, ma rappresentare un movimento vivente.

Vito Campanella | Surrealist / Metaphysics painter

Vito Campanella (1932-2014)🎨 was an Argentine painter of Italian origin born in Monopoli, Bari, Italy.

Before establishing himself in Buenos Aires in 1955, Campanella studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Brera in Milan and in cultural centers of important European artists.

After more than 50 years devoted to painting, Vito Campanella is a universal artist, a renowned painter called Master by the prestigious Swiss dictionary "Art Leaders of the World".

Antonio Ambrogio Alciati | Dama in rosa, 1921

Ambrogio Antonio Alciati | Dama in rosa, 1921 | Museo Borgogna

Il dipinto venne esposto nel 1921 alla mostra della galleria Pesaro di Milano, con il titolo Ritratto di signora, dove ottenne ottimi riscontri di critica: “Quella leggiadra figura di giovane donna, dal taglio del quadro alla grazia e semplicità della posa, dalla serena e un po’ sognosa espressione del volto alla delicata gamma di tinte dell’abbigliamento, è una delizia” (in “Emporium”, novembre 1921, p. 312).

Successivamente la tela fu presentata a Vercelli alla Esposizione artisti vercellesi.

Mostra di oreficeria del 1922 dove venne acquistata dal Museo.

Ambrogio Antonio Alciati | Dama in rosa, 1921 | Museo Borgogna

Pablo Neruda | Ode all'autunno

Modest is the autumn, like the woodcutters.

It's costly to cut all the leaves

off all the trees of all places.

In spring they're sewn on in flight

and now you must let them fall

as if they were little yellow birds:

it isn't easy.

You need time.

Vincent van Gogh🎨 | Autumn Garden, 1888

Armand Point | Symbolist painter

Armand Point (1860-1932) was a French painter, engraver and designer who was associated with the Symbolist movement and was one of the founders of the Salon de la Rose + Croix.

Later he formed his own atelier. Sources differ over the details of his birth and death.

Point's earliest works were Orientalist scenes of markets and musicians and the street life of his youth in Algeria.